Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 83 85
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 -30
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,085 1,774 2,326
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.90% 3.54% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 3.99% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,446 856 1,472
10th Percentile £45,602 £49,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,764 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,634 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -6.02%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 80,366 44,460 65,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.73% 80.84%
Number of salaries quoted 55,743 25,365 40,240
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -7.07%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 31 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -21 1,811 £75,000 +3.45% 1,029
UK excluding London -28 1,152 £67,500 -3.57% 530
Work from Home -22 860 £67,500 -3.57% 516
London -17 791 £85,000 +6.25% 663
North of England -40 373 £72,500 +3.57% 158
South East +33 329 £65,000 -7.14% 120
North West -57 199 £75,000 +7.14% 79
South West -12 133 £60,000 - 79
Midlands -47 110 £67,500 -3.57% 60
North East +17 97 £65,000 +49.43% 32
West Midlands -32 78 £80,000 +14.29% 35
Yorkshire -2 77 £69,310 -0.99% 49
Northern Ireland -24 69 £60,000 +33.33% 17
Wales -19 64 £65,000 +25.00% 11
East of England -27 41 £60,100 -3.84% 26
Scotland -58 37 £60,000 -22.58% 67
East Midlands -52 32 £65,000 -3.70% 24
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 43 (2.06%) Confluence
2 31 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 18 (0.86%) Apache
4 16 (0.77%) CMS
5 14 (0.67%) IIS
6 12 (0.58%) Camunda
7 10 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.34%) JBoss
10 7 (0.34%) nginx
10 7 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.34%) WordPress
11 5 (0.24%) Drupal
12 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.14%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.14%) Immediacy CMS
13 3 (0.14%) Kentico
13 3 (0.14%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 11 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.096%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.096%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.048%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.048%) Eikon
4 1 (0.048%) RMDS
4 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.048%) Shopify
4 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,051 (50.41%) AWS
2 878 (42.11%) Azure
3 324 (15.54%) GCP
4 261 (12.52%) GitHub
5 257 (12.33%) Serverless
6 196 (9.40%) SaaS
7 184 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
8 144 (6.91%) AWS Lambda
9 120 (5.76%) Amazon S3
10 115 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
11 114 (5.47%) Amazon EKS
12 107 (5.13%) GitHub Copilot
13 95 (4.56%) Azure Service Bus
14 84 (4.03%) Amazon ECS
15 74 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
16 66 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
16 66 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
17 61 (2.93%) Azure AKS
18 50 (2.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 49 (2.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.73%) Broadband
2 21 (1.01%) Network Security
3 13 (0.62%) DMARC
4 12 (0.58%) DNS
4 12 (0.58%) MQTT
5 9 (0.43%) HTTP
6 8 (0.38%) AMQP
6 8 (0.38%) Internet
6 8 (0.38%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.38%) VPN
7 7 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.29%) Firewall
8 6 (0.29%) RFID
9 3 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (0.14%) DHCP
9 3 (0.14%) LTE
9 3 (0.14%) Modbus
9 3 (0.14%) NAS
9 3 (0.14%) SAN
10 2 (0.096%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 310 (14.87%) MongoDB
2 229 (10.98%) PostgreSQL
3 201 (9.64%) NoSQL
4 168 (8.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 158 (7.58%) Elasticsearch
6 121 (5.80%) SQL Server
7 117 (5.61%) MySQL
8 95 (4.56%) Relational Database
9 66 (3.17%) Redis
10 57 (2.73%) DynamoDB
11 48 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
12 31 (1.49%) Big Data
13 17 (0.82%) Data Lake
14 15 (0.72%) RDBMS
15 14 (0.67%) Pinecone
16 12 (0.58%) Db2
16 12 (0.58%) DTS
17 11 (0.53%) BigQuery
18 10 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
19 8 (0.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 279 (13.38%) Git
2 186 (8.92%) GitLab
3 165 (7.91%) Jenkins
4 66 (3.17%) JUnit
5 65 (3.12%) JIRA
6 57 (2.73%) TeamCity
7 51 (2.45%) Cucumber
8 40 (1.92%) Cypress.io
9 39 (1.87%) Mockito
10 35 (1.68%) Claude Code
11 33 (1.58%) Maven
12 26 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 26 (1.25%) Selenium
13 18 (0.86%) SonarQube
14 17 (0.82%) Spock
15 15 (0.72%) Postman
16 14 (0.67%) JMeter
16 14 (0.67%) REST Assured
17 12 (0.58%) CircleCI
18 11 (0.53%) Vite
General
1 526 (25.23%) Finance
2 415 (19.90%) Social Skills
3 222 (10.65%) Public Sector
4 185 (8.87%) Banking
5 157 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 154 (7.39%) Law
7 140 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
8 115 (5.52%) Retail
9 86 (4.12%) Legal
10 70 (3.36%) Financial Institution
11 62 (2.97%) Marketing
12 50 (2.40%) Back Office
13 37 (1.77%) Aerospace
14 31 (1.49%) Games
15 30 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
16 28 (1.34%) Legal Technology
17 19 (0.91%) Advertising
18 18 (0.86%) Front Office
19 13 (0.62%) Manufacturing
20 11 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 773 (37.07%) Developer
2 496 (23.79%) Senior
3 373 (17.89%) Software Engineer
4 352 (16.88%) Lead
5 311 (14.92%) Architect
6 202 (9.69%) .NET Developer
7 188 (9.02%) Senior Developer
8 165 (7.91%) Full-Stack Developer
9 159 (7.63%) Java Developer
10 131 (6.28%) Java Engineer
11 123 (5.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 122 (5.85%) Senior Software Engineer
13 112 (5.37%) Solutions Architect
14 103 (4.94%) Principal Engineer
15 83 (3.98%) Software Developer
16 77 (3.69%) Lead Software Engineer
17 74 (3.55%) DevOps Engineer
18 72 (3.45%) Lead Developer
19 62 (2.97%) Technical Leader
20 57 (2.73%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 555 (26.62%) .NET
2 444 (21.29%) React
3 431 (20.67%) Node.js
4 376 (18.03%) Terraform
5 365 (17.51%) Spring
6 330 (15.83%) Spring Boot
7 311 (14.92%) RESTful
8 291 (13.96%) REST
9 276 (13.24%) Kafka
10 248 (11.89%) ASP.NET
11 227 (10.89%) .NET Core
12 222 (10.65%) AngularJS
13 214 (10.26%) Vue
14 199 (9.54%) ASP.NET Core
15 122 (5.85%) Blazor
16 104 (4.99%) ASP.NET Web API
17 93 (4.46%) .NET Framework
17 93 (4.46%) HTML
18 91 (4.36%) CSS
19 84 (4.03%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 654 (31.37%) Cloud Native
2 373 (17.89%) Distributed Systems
3 155 (7.43%) Product Ownership
4 111 (5.32%) Enterprise Software
5 108 (5.18%) Legacy Systems
6 75 (3.60%) Onboarding
7 52 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
8 50 (2.40%) AI Agents
9 49 (2.35%) Public Cloud
10 45 (2.16%) Virtual Team
11 42 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
12 37 (1.77%) e-Learning
13 29 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
14 25 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
15 22 (1.06%) Management Information System
15 22 (1.06%) Mobile App
15 22 (1.06%) Video\Live Streaming
16 20 (0.96%) Algorithms
16 20 (0.96%) Mainframe
16 20 (0.96%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 140 (6.71%) Linux
2 49 (2.35%) Windows
3 26 (1.25%) CentOS
3 26 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (1.01%) Unix
5 10 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.38%) Android
6 8 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.29%) AIX
8 5 (0.24%) Debian
8 5 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.19%) VMS
10 1 (0.048%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,106 (53.05%) CI/CD
2 992 (47.58%) Agile
3 739 (35.44%) Software Engineering
4 736 (35.30%) DevOps
5 578 (27.72%) Full-Stack Development
6 520 (24.94%) Mentoring
7 472 (22.64%) Event-Driven
8 447 (21.44%) AI
9 425 (20.38%) Test Automation
10 415 (19.90%) Infrastructure as Code
11 413 (19.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 407 (19.52%) Containerisation
13 369 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
14 309 (14.82%) Technical Leadership
15 295 (14.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 293 (14.05%) Scrum
17 244 (11.70%) Architectural Patterns
17 244 (11.70%) TDD
18 234 (11.22%) Observability
19 229 (10.98%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 716 (34.34%) Java
2 581 (27.87%) C#
3 503 (24.12%) SQL
4 463 (22.21%) JavaScript
5 459 (22.01%) Python
6 393 (18.85%) TypeScript
7 98 (4.70%) Go
8 57 (2.73%) Ruby
9 45 (2.16%) C++
10 40 (1.92%) Bash
11 38 (1.82%) PHP
12 29 (1.39%) Scala
13 28 (1.34%) PowerShell
14 26 (1.25%) Bicep
15 24 (1.15%) Rust
16 23 (1.10%) Kotlin
17 20 (0.96%) PL/SQL
18 17 (0.82%) C
19 15 (0.72%) Groovy
20 13 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 302 (14.48%) Security Cleared
2 204 (9.78%) SC Cleared
3 177 (8.49%) Degree
4 91 (4.36%) DV Cleared
5 80 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 76 (3.65%) AWS Certification
7 51 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (1.44%) CISSP
9 29 (1.39%) Azure Certification
10 19 (0.91%) CISM
11 18 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (0.82%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.48%) MBA
14 10 (0.48%) PhD
15 7 (0.34%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
17 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
18 4 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (10.60%) QA
2 92 (4.41%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.77%) WCAG
4 36 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (1.58%) GDPR
6 18 (0.86%) NCSC
7 17 (0.82%) NIST
8 13 (0.62%) Data Quality
8 13 (0.62%) SOC 2
9 11 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.43%) GRC
11 9 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.24%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.24%) PSD2
16 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 3 (0.14%) IFRS
System Software
1 588 (28.20%) Docker
2 35 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.24%) NDS
4 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.19%) Firmware
5 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 629 (30.17%) Kubernetes
2 106 (5.08%) Ansible
3 98 (4.70%) Grafana
4 51 (2.45%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.34%) Argo
6 26 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.91%) Puppet
8 15 (0.72%) Kibana
9 9 (0.43%) Cilium
10 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.24%) Podman
12 4 (0.19%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.19%) Packer
13 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.096%) MIIS
14 2 (0.096%) Rancher
15 1 (0.048%) Cisco CUCM
15 1 (0.048%) Consul
15 1 (0.048%) Fluentd
15 1 (0.048%) logstash
Vendors
1 335 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 98 (4.70%) Google
3 73 (3.50%) Oracle
4 43 (2.06%) Splunk
5 40 (1.92%) OpenAI
6 28 (1.34%) Dynatrace
7 26 (1.25%) IBM
8 25 (1.20%) AppDynamics
9 24 (1.15%) Databricks
10 23 (1.10%) Okta
11 20 (0.96%) ForgeRock
12 18 (0.86%) Typelevel
13 17 (0.82%) OneLogin
14 15 (0.72%) SAP
15 14 (0.67%) Adobe
16 13 (0.62%) SendGrid
17 12 (0.58%) Salesforce
17 12 (0.58%) ServiceNow
18 11 (0.53%) Mistral
19 10 (0.48%) Red Hat